teri60
09-18-2008, 07:33 AM
Hi Everyone,
I've been stuttering as far back as I can remember and it has been tortuous for me until the last few years when I decided to fight for my rights at my places of employment. As with most of us using the phone is a troublesome thing and I do answer the phone at my jobs but in a way that it's comfortable to me and not how my employer wants me to do it. I also have always been upfront about my stuttering and tell people to put myself at ease because I can't stand the bewildered looks I used to get.
I wasn't always like this, I never used to make my own calls and sometimes I still once in awhile have my daughter make my calls, only because I'm lazy and it takes alot of effort. On the phone I spell my name because I don't like the feeling of my name not coming out and the silence that comes with it.
I am going to college right now but it's online because it would be too stressful for me to be with other people and having them ask my name and questions, so I just don't do it.
When I was younger and guy crazy, i used to wonder how it would feel to be able to call a boyfriend and have a fluent conversation. Even now I don't contact old friends, it would be too nerve wracking. I know I live in this unsociable bubble and don't really meet people, my speech impediment has caused me anxiety and has made me depressed so i take anxiety medication and anti-depressants and I can tell you taking medication does NOT change your speech. I know when I was younger, I used to drink to be able to carry on conversations but we get older and that gets old.
Sorry this is so long, oh I have one more odd story to tell, I enrolled in speech therapy and a speech therapy group and I didn't stutter not one time, no one could understand what i was doing there, it was embarrassing to not stutter..LOL
I've been stuttering as far back as I can remember and it has been tortuous for me until the last few years when I decided to fight for my rights at my places of employment. As with most of us using the phone is a troublesome thing and I do answer the phone at my jobs but in a way that it's comfortable to me and not how my employer wants me to do it. I also have always been upfront about my stuttering and tell people to put myself at ease because I can't stand the bewildered looks I used to get.
I wasn't always like this, I never used to make my own calls and sometimes I still once in awhile have my daughter make my calls, only because I'm lazy and it takes alot of effort. On the phone I spell my name because I don't like the feeling of my name not coming out and the silence that comes with it.
I am going to college right now but it's online because it would be too stressful for me to be with other people and having them ask my name and questions, so I just don't do it.
When I was younger and guy crazy, i used to wonder how it would feel to be able to call a boyfriend and have a fluent conversation. Even now I don't contact old friends, it would be too nerve wracking. I know I live in this unsociable bubble and don't really meet people, my speech impediment has caused me anxiety and has made me depressed so i take anxiety medication and anti-depressants and I can tell you taking medication does NOT change your speech. I know when I was younger, I used to drink to be able to carry on conversations but we get older and that gets old.
Sorry this is so long, oh I have one more odd story to tell, I enrolled in speech therapy and a speech therapy group and I didn't stutter not one time, no one could understand what i was doing there, it was embarrassing to not stutter..LOL